the_process wrote:I remember the Boston board after Game 5, and I don't know if I've already referenced this... but all their fans were saying "our only hope is that Philly outchokes us". And that's exactly what happened. Boston had that game won last night... and then Miami dropped them on the table and the Celtics shriveled up and cowered in the corner. They are not a clutch team either, beating Sister Katherine's Shrinking Violets here proved nothing.
A Heat-Nuggets series would be fascinating.
Funny thing about last night's game - while it's true that Williams "poked the bear", it was his presence that ignited the Celtics in the second half. After that incident, he still hit a clutch layup and a dunk off a feed from Tatum before Mazzulla took him out, and from there the Celtics collapsed.
I see a lot of people trashing Williams this morning, and Jaylen Brown said "no comment" when asked about it after the game, which to me shows how weak the Celtics are mentally, that they disapproved of a player showing some fire like that. Williams' presence in the second half was the only time the Celtics looked good in this series, IMO.
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